The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-15


sion after being released from an clever
months Imprisonment in the Utah Pen
itentiary. AS an introduction to hi
remarks, he read from the eighth chap
ter of Pdul's epistle to the Romans from
the 35th to the 39th verse, inclusive
Also lines in the opening hymn,
Happy the man whose hopes RELY,
On IsraePs God He made the sky.
He sends the laboring conscience peace
And grants the pIis'ner sweet release.
The speaker hardly knew how t.
begin, or what to say; he would depend
upon the exercise of faith by hi
hearers. The selections he had reaC
contained principles which he haC
always tried to carry out in his life
during an active career of over fifty
years. Ii the Saints had verify received
the gospel they must exp ct to have The
same difficulties to encounter, the same
obstacles to overcome, as the Saints OF
old had. When the gospel was received
by them in the old Countries these points
had not been sufficiently taken into
consideration. Those who had neglected
to so take them into consideration, had
fallen by the Wayside-apostatized and
mad exerted their influence TO do wrong
to the people of God.
Referring to his recent incarceration.
Apostle Snow remarked that he had, in
the first place, done all in his power to
keep out of the Penitentiary; he had
used all the wisdom God Lad given him
to that end, but when he found himself
| there, he found everything very strange
He had always considered himself an
honest, moral, patriotic man he gloried
in loyalty and hoped to see bis country
grow and increase in strength, he hsd
never been arrested before, and when he
found himself in the Penitentiary walls,
he could not understand why it was.
He acknowledged that the Lord wished
him to travel that path, and he was
measurably happy. He realized that if
the gospel was true, that Joseph Smith
was a true prophet, and that he had
knowledge for himself. and he would
consequently devote his entire life to
proclalming that knowledge that others
might profit by it. He at one time had
a vision, in his early experience in the
church, by which he was shown that
God had given to His children the same
organism He himself possessed. Jesus
came into the world and labored and
suffered that mankind might receive
the same intelligence and wisdom that
He and His Father possessed With
this knowledge of Jesus and His mis-
sion, he resolved to do the will of God
to the best of his ability. The apostles
of Jesus day were martyrs for the
gospels sakei they sacrificed their
lives, and the speaker did not think
himself any better than those ancients.
He did not wish to avoid sacrifices, but
would make them without lishonor to
himself. He would prefer not to 90
back to the Pen; but would go back
again thousand times rather than
disgrace the principles he knew to be Of |
God. He had had many chats with the |
Governor, the latter endeayoring to
convert the apostle to his way of think |
Ing and vice versa. The speaker had |
told his excellency that he didn't think |
that certain things would be the result |
of this crusade; but that he knew the |
result would be the glory and vindica-
ton of the Saints in their labor of love. |
ii they would only live according to the |
knowledge they had. His experience IN
preaching the plan OF salvation, was the |
result of his knowledge of the truth of |
the gospel. While his Imprisonment !
for eleven months, as q so-called con-
vict, had been imposed-tive months of
it-wrongfully, he had no fault to find |
with the courts, as they had a mission
to perform.
Apostle Snow related some of his
with prominent persons who
had visited him while in the Peniten-
tiary. In his conversation with several
leading men, he endeavored TO preach
5he gospel, and regarded himself as hay
ng done SO, long and loud.
Now, with regard to the future, the
speaker continued, the Lord Lad
the Saints spiritual V, and
he dark outlook which was. pro.
ented to them financially and physics
lily, disturbed the community more or
ess, and Il was not strange thai it
hOuld, perhaps more than was neces-
airy, if the Saints properly understood |
he workings of the Almighty, who held
he government in His hand. The pur-
,oses Of God were the salvation of the
lunan family, and the calling of tie
saints was to carry out those purposes,
nd IN doing so they would
AVE to un6e- go priya ions al d
er>ecutions. He related some hard
hings as among his expert
nee at the Penitentiary; But be. felt
haritable and like saying, as Jesus :
aid, Father, forgive them, for they =
now not what hey do" He remarked
hat at Conference, six years ago, he
lade q statement regarding the GOV
rnment OF the United States, and as II
ad been published he would read
ortion of it, TO show how far he had
eer wrong then in his prediction.
The conference committee had. after
orking on the Edmunds-Tucker bill
II some time. stricken out many objee-- /
enable features Should it become law,
e the Saints prepared for its hard I
lips2 he asked. We are becoming
,customed to being vronged and
viled. Our enemies simply requested
US that We merely "obey the